Believing by faith : an essay in the epistemology and ethics of religious belief /
Can it be justifiable to commit oneself 'by faith' to a religious claim when its truth lacks adequate support from one's total available evidence? In Believing by Faith, John Bishop defends a version of fideism inspired by William James's 1896 lecture 'The Will to Believe�...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | English. |
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Oxford : New York :
Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press,
2007.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Can it be justifiable to commit oneself 'by faith' to a religious claim when its truth lacks adequate support from one's total available evidence? In Believing by Faith, John Bishop defends a version of fideism inspired by William James's 1896 lecture 'The Will to Believe'. By critiquing both 'isolationist' (Wittgensteinian) and Reformed epistemologies of religious belief, Bishop argues that anyone who accepts that our publicly available evidence is equally open totheistic and naturalist/atheistic interpretations will need to defend a modest fideist position. This modest fideism understands th. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 250 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 230-236) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780191525575 019152557X 9780191709432 0191709433 1281145319 9781281145314 9786611145316 6611145311 1435618831 9781435618831 |